Dry Needling and Therapeutic Exercise on Sleep in Individuals With Chronic Neck Pain and Sleep Disturbance
Active, not recruitingNot applicableNCT06275074
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Feasibility study investigating the effects of dry needling on individuals with chronic neck pain and sleep disturbance.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Dry Needling and Therapeutic Exercise on Sleep in Individuals With Chronic Neck Pain and Sleep Disturbance - A Pilot Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
- Start date
- 2024-03-14
- Primary completion
- 2024-09-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Neck pain lasting greater than 3 months 28,29 * Age: 18-75 years * Presence of sleep disturbance - to be defined as a score ≥ 8 on the Insomnia Severity Index * Ability to understand study procedures and to comply with them for the entire length of the study Exclusion Criteria: * Previous surgery to the neck or thoracic spine * Central nervous system disorders * Systemic joint disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis) * Infection * Cancer * Raynaud's disease * Pregnancy * Immunocompromised disease (e.g., diabetes mellitus, HIV, AIDS, lupus) * Insufficient English-language skills to complete all questionnaires. * Contraindications to dry needling: * Presence of needle phobia * History of abnormal reaction to needling or injection * History of bleeding disorder (e.g., current anticoagulant therapy or known thrombocytopenia)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06275074